How do the different parts of an adult plant communicate with each other when it suffers an injury, is waterlogged, burnt or ...

Field experiments have shown how ESA’s potential FLEX mission could identify vegetation that is suffering degrees of stress invisible to the naked eye. The Fluorescence Explorer, or FLEX for short, is ...

ST. LOUIS, MO, August 20, 2025 - A team of expert scientists led by Kirk Czymmek, PhD, director of the Advanced Bioimaging Laboratory at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and Heather E.

Using satellite imagery to detect plant fluorescence, researchers have developed a way to predict crop yields that can potentially be used widely in developing countries. In developed countries, we ...

Flowchart for the experiment and data analysis process. Chlorophyll a fluorescence (ChlF) has been a pivotal tool in understanding plant photochemistry, offering insights into the energy transfer ...

Plants' glow can give flash drought warnings, a new study has found. NASA captured a video showing the plants leading a path across drought-stricken regions of the United States. Chlorophyll, the ...

Mimosa pudica, known as touch-me-not plants, quickly move their leaves in response to touch and new research reveals how they do it. In a study led by Masatsugu Toyota at Saitama University in Japan, ...

The synthetically produced fluorescent siderophore NBD-desferrioxamine B (NBD-DFO), an analog of the natural siderophore ferrioxamine B, was used to study iron uptake by plants. Short-term (10-hour) ...